Upgoater will be closing shop as a bidbot

Winds of change

There has been a seachange in the general feelings on bidbots over the last few weeks, especially with the recent debacle that is Hive account@zeartul, Hive account@bellyrub, and the case of the sold-no-not-sold accounts.

There have been many posts about how vote selling is hurting the platform and a few that are in favor of it. But it's pretty obvious that the bots are getting to be less welcome than in the past.

Upgoater is a small bidbot, and was built with the idea of helping some of the smaller accounts get a bit of return on their posts. I have, I believe, the lowest set minimum bid of any of the bots. The delegation I have received has come from my own pocket, and was leased through Minnowbooster and Blocktrades. I do not have exact numbers, but I believe my profit to be about 100 SBD in liquid and whatever the account has in vested SP as curation rewards.

While that is not an argument neither for nor against bidbots, I thought it would be nice to share a little of what goes on with these.

So what's the plan?

I have approx 21 days left in this delegation cycle, and when that delegation ends, I will be abandoning this account.

So, a thank you to all of you that used Hive account@upgoater over the last 3 months, but it is time for some changes. While I can't claim that this took too much time, it will be nice to focus on other projects without the slight distraction.

If I do take it down early, it will be for manual curation purposes. I will be running the software on bounce mode, which means that bids sent in will be auto-returned as soon as they hit the wallet. I will leave that running for a while, but I can't promise how long that will remain running as I doubt I'll check it too often.

I have closed the Discord which was only used for issues of non votes, but I kept up with the returns well enough that I doubt it will be missed.